Share this on… During the Cold War period, there was a sector of anarchists/left-libertarians in the West who took special interest in developments and repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Their interest was in part due to…
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The Anarchist Spectre in Eastern Europe
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Share this on… Rarely is an entire region of the world so caught up in the collapse of hierarchical politics as Eastern Europe of a year ago. The infamous “spectre of anarchy” astonished and horrified Communist, dissident and Western politicians…
Westinghouse Wildcat
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Share this on… By the beginning of the second shift on Monday July 12, the huge East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse Electric Company was shut tight by a wildcat strike of production workers. Share this on…
Free feasts, erotic play and the eruption of the marvelous
by M.K. Shibek, Unruh Lee
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Share this on… Unruh Lee: In 1994, we started the Gardeners Against the Work Ethic Association (or GAWE) together. I later wrote in a ‘zine with this name, that this project was an “anti-work experiment in self-sufficiency, creating a new…
Black Star North
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Share this on… “A single star weds the space between two branches.” — George Elliott Clarke in Québécité Lately, I have chosen to do my living, loving, writing, and resisting in British Columbia (BC) Canada. Though I can’t say that…
Anarchy in Trieste
by Bob McGlynn
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Share this on… The Italian group Germinal sponsored the first-ever large scale planning meeting of anarchists from the East and West in Trieste, Italy from April 14 through 17. Although they did not intend to have a huge gathering, 332…
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Share this on… Cuban Alternative To the FE: Cuban Greens/anti-authoritarians need our aid. Orlando Polo and Mercedes Paez of Cuba’s anti-authoritarian/ecological/ anti-Militarist Green Path group have been touring the U.S. recently. Arrested many times in Cuba, they are being repressed…
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
Share this on… The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are…
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
Share this on… About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate…
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
Share this on… The people at Back Room Anarchist Books in Minneapolis have announced a continental anarchist gathering to be held June 18-22 in that city. After the success of the May Day/Haymarket events in Chicago last year, most of…
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Share this on… Send letters to [email protected] or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length. Share this on…
Bob McGlynn Dies at 60
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Share this on… Bob McGlynn, a longtime fighter, organizer and visionary in New York City’s anarchist scene, who became known internationally for his solidarity work with activists in the East Bloc, died of a heart attack Aug. 23 at his…
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Share this on… About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate…
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Share this on… Where’s OGB been? For several issues of the Fifth Estate, On Gogol Boulevard (OGB) produced a two-page spread on former Eastern Bloc and Third World anti-authoritarian struggles. However, due to numerous glitches, we’re missing from the FE…
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Share this on… About On Gogol Boulevard This section is produced for the Fifth Estate by Neither East Nor West; a New York City group linking alternative oppositions in the East and West, and printing news and documents unavailable in…